How will the Arctic sea ice cover develop this summer?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2008 |
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The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer 2008 will lie, with almost 100 per cent probability, below that of the year 2005 – the year with the second lowest sea ice extent ever measured. Chances ...
Experts say slowing aging is way to fight diseases in 21st century
Jul 09, 2008 |
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A group of aging experts from the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that the best strategy for preventing and fighting a multitude of diseases is to focus on slowing the biological processes of aging. The analysis ...
Biofuels and biodiversity don't mix, ecologists warn
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned. A new study of the potential ecological ...
Hepatitis C virus may need enzyme's help to cause liver disease
Jul 09, 2008 |
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A key enzyme may explain how hepatitis C infection causes fatty liver – a buildup of excess fat in the liver, which can lead to life-threatening diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer, report University of Pittsburgh ...
Nanomaterials Key to New Strategies for Blocking Metastasis
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 09, 2008 |
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A new treatment strategy using targeted nanoparticles to block metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue, ...
Seasonal programmed brain cell death foiled in living birds
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to ...
Hyundai to Start Retail Sales of First Hybrid in July 2009
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Hyundai Motor Company plans to start retail sales of its first LPG–electric hybrid vehicle in July 2009. To be sold initially in the Korean domestic market under the Avante badge, the Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) ...
Diabetes linked to male infertility; excess sugars in the body have direct effect on sperm quality
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Diabetes in men has a direct effect on fertility, a scientist told the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today. Dr. Con Mallidis from Queen's University, Belfast, UK, said ...
Improving Quantum Dot Synthesis
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a simplified, low-cost process for producing high-quality, water-soluble quantum dots for biomedical applications. By using a laboratory ...
Swerve left to avoid that satellite
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Think you have trouble getting rid of the clutter in your living room? After more than 50 years of launching rockets and satellites into space, the human race now has to deal with the clutter left behind -- or is it "above"? ...
Male kidneys for men only?
Jul 09, 2008 |
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The gender of donor and recipient plays a larger role in kidney transplants than previously assumed. Female donor kidneys do not function as well in men – due to their smaller size. Women have a higher risk of rejecting a ...
NOAA takes first broad look at soot from ships
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Tugboats puff out more soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels, and large cargo ships emit more than twice as much soot as previously estimated, according to the first extensive study of commercial ...
Brain activity encodes reward magnitude and delay during choice
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Good things may come to those who wait, but research has proven that humans and animals actually prefer an immediate rather than a delayed reward. Now, a study published by Cell Press in the July 10 issue of the journal Neuron reveal ...
Superfast muscles in songbirds
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Certain songbirds can contract their vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye – placing the birds with a handful of animals that have evolved superfast muscles, University of Utah researchers ...
Long-term care fraught with uncertainties for elderly baby boomers
Jul 09, 2008 |
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The continued decline of the nursing home — once the mainstay care for the frail elderly — and an upsurge in popularity of assisted living will lead to many dramatic changes in long-term care, according to a University of ...
